Susan (Stewart) Spencer-Churchill (1767 - 1841)

Ancestors

Wife of George (Spencer) Spencer-Churchill — married 15 Sep 1791 in Westminster, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 2 Apr 1841 at age 73 in Park Lane, Middlesex, England

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Lady Susan Stewart was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Lady Susan Stewart was born in 10 April 1767, the second daughter of John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway and his second wife, Anne Dashwood.

She married 15 September 1791 at St James's, Westminster, George Spencer, at that time Marquess of Blandford, who succeeded as the 5th Duke of Marlborough in 1817 and took the name Spencer-Churchill by Royal licence the same year.^[1]

They had issue:^[2]

1. Lady Caroline Susan Spencer, born 26 November 1792, died young 18 December 1792;
2. George Spencer-Churchill, born 27 December 1793, succeeded his father as 6th Duke of Marlborough;
3. Lord Charles Spencer-Churchil, born 3 December 1794, died 29 April 1840, having married 24 August 1827, Etheldred Catherine Bennett, and had issue;
4. Reverend Lord George Henry Spencer-Churchill, born 18 May 1796, died 30 May 1828, having married, 13 July 1824 (his first cousin), Elizabeth Martha Nares;
5. Lord Henry John Spencer-Churchill, born 22 September 1797, Captain in Royal Navy, died at Macao 2 June 1840;
6. Lady Caroline Spencer-Churchill, born 11 December 1798, died 10 January 1824, having married 21 June 1822 (?), David Pennant, Esq. of Downing, county Flintshire.

Her husband died at Blenheim 5 March 1840 and was buried there 13 March and she died 2 April 1841 at Park Lane, Middlesex, and was buried at Blenheim 12 April. Her will was proven in May 1841.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Cokayne, vol. 8, p. 500-01
2. ↑ Lodge, p. 387
3. ↑ Cokayne, vol. 8, p. 501

• Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times, 2nd rev. ed., vol. 8, ed. by Hon. Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden, London: St Catherine Press, 1932.

• Lodge, Edmund, The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, as at Present Existing, 28th ed. revised and enlarged, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859. Digitised by Google Books (http://books.google.com).

• Paul, Sir James Balfour (ed.), The Scots Peerage founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas Peerage of Scotland, vol. 4, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1907. Digitised by Internet Archive

Acknowledgements

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